Epicharmus, active 5th century B.C

LC control no.	n 97036148
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Epicharmus, active 5th century B.C. *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Epicarmo, de Siracusa, active 5th century B.C. Epicharme, active 5th century B.C. Epicharmus, 5th cent. B.C. Epikharmos, active 5th century B.C.
Beginning date	-04
Associated place	Syracuse (Italy)
Field of activity	Comedy plays
Profession or occupation	Dramatists
Found in	Epicarmo de Siracusa, 1996: t.p. ; p. ix (writer of comedy in Syracuse; was related to the tyrant Hiéron) Oxford classical dictionary, 1949, p. 323 (Epicharmus (5th c. B.C.), Sicilian writer of comedy, b. at Syracuse. Contemporary of Hieron, king of Syracuse. Lived to the age of 90 and may be dated roughly 530-440 B.C.) Grand dictionnaire encyclopédique Larousse, 1982, v. 4 (Epicharme, in Greek Epikharmos, Greek comic poet; ca. 525-450 B.C.; Syracuse; protégé of the Sicilian tyrants Gélon and Hiéron)
Associated language	grc